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COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 161

land situate in the town of Eastchester, late iii the possession of Edmund Ward, amounting to 252^ acres.^

The above mentioned Edmund Ward, was the only brother of

.•the Hon. Stephen Ward. Daring the RevoUition, Edmund appears to have sided with the loyalists, for which he lost his property under the confiscation act of 17S2. His second son John Ward, was an officer in the Loyal American regiment, " and entered (remarks Sabine) the military service of the Crown as early as 1776. During the war, he was frequently in battle.

. The loyal Americans went to New Brunswick, in 1783 ; and when in the course of that year the corps was disbanded, he settled at St. John as a merchant. He filled various public stations, and for many years enjoyed the appellation of the father of the city. At the time of his decease, he was not only the senior magistrate of the city and county of St. John, but the oldest merchant and half pay oflicer in New Brunswick. Mr. Vf ard was a gentleman of noble and venerable appearance. He died in 1S46, in the ninety-third year of his age. His remains were taken to Trinity Church, " where the impressive funeral service of the Church of England was read, and were subsequently interred in the new burial ground, followed to the grave by one of the largest and most respectable funeral processions ever seen in this city ; inckiding in distinct bodies, the justices of the peace for the city and county of St John, the common council of the city headed by his worship the Mayor, and his honor the Recorder, the members of the legal profession, (the barristers being in their gowns) at the head of whom, was his honor Mr.